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ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE

Written by William E.A. Axon
Published by William Andrews & Co. in 1899

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Front cover

Cover of ECHOES OF OLD LANCASHIRE by William E.A. Axon

Contents

  • The "Lancashire Plot"
  • De Quincey's Highwayman
  • Some Lancashire Centenarians
  • What was the First Book Printed in Manchester?
  • Thomas Lurting: A Liverpool Worthy
  • Kufic Coins found in Lancashire
  • Newspapers in 1738-39
  • A Lancashire Naturalist: Thomas Garnett
  • The Traffords of Trafford
  • A Manchester will of the Fifteenth Century
  • A Visitor to Lancashire in 1807
  • How the First Spinning Machinery was taken to Belgium
  • Merry Andrew of Manchester
  • A Manchester Jeanie Deans
  • Some Lancashire Giants
  • A Note on William Rowlinson
  • Literary Taste of the Eighteenth Century
  • Hugh of Manchester: A Statesman and Divine of the Thirteenth Century
  • Mrs Fletcher in Lancashire
  • Manchester and the First Reform Agitation
  • The Folk-Lore of Lancashire
  • Manchester Grammar School Mill
  • The Rising of 1715
  • The Fool of Lancaster
  • Alexander Barclay and Manchester
  • Index